The article focuses on the issue of anthropology as a modern field of study. It presents responses, approaches, fears and hopes of anthropologists and connected with anthropologization and anthropological discourse in the humanities. The reflections are based on the interviews with anthropologists, discussions, hearsay stories, even fragmentary opinions expressed on more or less formal occasions, as well as on several-year-long personal affiliation with the research community and observation of anthropology’s increasing influence on the humanities